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notoepik · 03-02-2007, 02:53 PM

My mother in law uses her best Mexican accent and tells the caller "I just the maid. I know nothing!" They always hang up on her.

I get calls from a company called Purity Medical. They always tell me there is a shortage of gloves, but they have "set aside TWO cases for me. Will that be enough to get me through until August?" That wouldn't get us through a week let alone 4-6 months! But since I have never bought from this charlatan company they wouldn't know that.

After being polite for about 6 months of these calls, I had enough. Telling them numerous times to take me off the list didn't work. So I decided to play with them. I would string along the poor first caller until they thought they had a real sucker on the line, then I got to talk to the BOSS, because only he could handle such a large order. Yipee!! THE BOSS! I gave him the run around for 15 minutes. Never directly saying I wanted to buy gloves from them, but letting them know that two cases was not going to do, I always needed way more than that. Now I say, "are those powder free, cause you know we have to have powder free, blah blah blah, rash on hands, can't have a rash on the hands you know. Blah blah blah, are they the nice thin ones? Could you peel a grape with them on? Are you sure? Well you know surgery is a lot like peeling a grape......blah blah blah....."

This guy wants to seal the deal. BAD He agrees to send me FOUR cases of gloves. He asks to verify the shipping address, what is it. I say "Yes, what is it?" That is what I need to know he says. "Oh I said, well you should know already!" blah blah blah. "By the way, how much are these gloves?"

He gives me a horrendously enormous cost, and I tell him but I can get really good gloves for 1/10th that price from my usual vendor. "Are your gloves really that much better?" Sure they are. "How can that be?"

He finally realizes that I am not buying gloves. The guy is enraged. He said "you must be *a rather large woman* and hung up.

LOL I think that was suppose to mean FAT B*****!

They still call now and then. The last one I asked what had gone wrong in her life to make her take such a crappy job. Wouldn't flipping burgers be better, and more honest? She evidently had already given that some thought, she hung up.

03-02-2007, 02:53 PM	#17
notoepik First Line Centre Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Kalispell Exp:	My mother in law uses her best Mexican accent and tells the caller "I just the maid. I know nothing!" They always hang up on her. I get calls from a company called Purity Medical. They always tell me there is a shortage of gloves, but they have "set aside TWO cases for me. Will that be enough to get me through until August?" That wouldn't get us through a week let alone 4-6 months! But since I have never bought from this charlatan company they wouldn't know that. After being polite for about 6 months of these calls, I had enough. Telling them numerous times to take me off the list didn't work. So I decided to play with them. I would string along the poor first caller until they thought they had a real sucker on the line, then I got to talk to the BOSS, because only he could handle such a large order. Yipee!! THE BOSS! I gave him the run around for 15 minutes. Never directly saying I wanted to buy gloves from them, but letting them know that two cases was not going to do, I always needed way more than that. Now I say, "are those powder free, cause you know we have to have powder free, blah blah blah, rash on hands, can't have a rash on the hands you know. Blah blah blah, are they the nice thin ones? Could you peel a grape with them on? Are you sure? Well you know surgery is a lot like peeling a grape......blah blah blah....." This guy wants to seal the deal. BAD He agrees to send me FOUR cases of gloves. He asks to verify the shipping address, what is it. I say "Yes, what is it?" That is what I need to know he says. "Oh I said, well you should know already!" blah blah blah. "By the way, how much are these gloves?" He gives me a horrendously enormous cost, and I tell him but I can get really good gloves for 1/10th that price from my usual vendor. "Are your gloves really that much better?" Sure they are. "How can that be?" He finally realizes that I am not buying gloves. The guy is enraged. He said "you must be a rather large woman and hung up. LOL I think that was suppose to mean FAT B*****! They still call now and then. The last one I asked what had gone wrong in her life to make her take such a crappy job. Wouldn't flipping burgers be better, and more honest? She evidently had already given that some thought, she hung up.